An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown’s life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist.More
With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and water resources needed to feed their people.More
With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and water resources needed to feed their people.More
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.More
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.More
“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostMore
How human demands are outstripping the earth's capacities—and what we need to do about it.More
A bold new plan for those concerned about rising temperatures, population projections, and spreading water scarcity.More
Award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem.More
"One of the world's most influential thinkers."—Washington PostMore
On the bicentennial of Malthus's legendary essay on the tendency for population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, the question facing the world is not whether population growth will slow, but how.More
The authors of the highly acclaimed State of the World series elaborate upon their vision of a global economy that does not destroy its own natural support systems.More